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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Some grammar help please

I'm going through a grammar refresher book and there are some things that I don't understand as it didn't go into much detail in the solution, can anyone help?

It states words ending in -fe change to -ves to make it plural, but then it goes on to make the following ...

giraffe > giraffes (not giraves and yes I know the answer is giraffes from common knowledge ... confused!

Also oaf > oafs (not oaves)

Probably exceptions.

Then other confusing problems, why is it if's, and's or but's and not ifs ands or buts? (the apostrophe s)

Thanks for any help
  

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Anonymous Then other confusing problems, why is it if's, and's or but's and not ifs ands or buts? (the apostrophe s) The idiom is commonly written as "no ifs, ands, or buts" The words are not individually pluralized because they are not nouns. They only appear in this idiom.

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  • Anonymous Then other confusing problems, why is it if's, and's or but's and not ifs ands or buts?
  • (the apostrophe s) The idiom is commonly written as "no ifs, ands, or buts" The words are not individually pluralized because they are not nouns.
  • They only appear in this idiom.
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AnonymousThen other confusing problems, why is it if's, and's or but's and not ifs ands or buts? (the apostrophe s)
The idiom is commonly written as "no ifs, ands, or buts"
The words are not individually pluralized because they are not nouns.
They only appear in this idiom.
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